Turning Wim Wenders' Wings Of Desire into a feelgood romance, Brad Silberling's melancholic drama sees Nicolas Cage as an angel fall for earthbound surgeon Meg Ryan. Naturally, however, the course of true love between the human and semi-divine rarely runs smooth, and before you know it Cage is debating whether to give up his immortality to pursue a real life relationship with the delightful doc.
Silberling has a fresh eye, Cage neatly judges his adapting-to-earth life shtick and the romance is generally affecting, yet far too often the yarn is hamstrung by storytelling longeurs and philosophical claptrap. Close, but no cigar.
